Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text

Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...

Posted by mistersquid on September 17, 2009 9:47 PM

Image Maps with Rollover Effects

Image maps were interesting for about three and a half minutes in 1992. Then JavaScript came out and offered developers and users interactive feedback for linked images. Image maps and their associated <area> tags could not (and still do not)...

Posted by mistersquid on December 7, 2008 11:42 AM

Resurface

The two areas which have absorbed my attentions for the last two months (outside the shambles that passes for my personal life) has been my teaching and my writing. This entry is about the writing part of my life, research...

Posted by mistersquid on May 10, 2008 10:09 PM

Scripting Tag Clouds in MovableType

At the moment, I’m in the middle of proctoring the final examination for my afternoon American Literature survey (1918-present). Teaching a month into what is every other universities’ summer “breaks” (more accurately read “frenzied research period”) is one of the...

Posted by mistersquid on June 8, 2007 3:38 PM

Snowbase DNS

Domain names are tricky. You sign up for one, thinking it’s a pretty cool name. Then, after a year or three, you’re like “What the jackson was I thinking when I registered blurfle.org?” Anyhow, I’ve decided that desiringmachine.net isn’t so...

Posted by mistersquid on January 1, 2007 10:17 PM

I want to be your DNS

Some of you have domains registered with  Godaddy  but are loved enough by me that mistersquid has agreed to provide with you free hosting. One of the (first) steps you will need to take is to delegate DNS to...

Posted by mistersquid on February 26, 2006 12:00 AM

Brain-Dead Safari Programmers

If Safari is your main browser and you’re runnning it as-shipped, your Macintosh is vulnerable as  a Brooklyn-based iPod lover . Bad jokes aside * , this is a serious vulnerability that has been targeted by at least  one virus/trojan/worm found  “in the...

Posted by mistersquid on February 22, 2006 11:00 PM

Eyes Too Slanty?

The video above (21.2 MB and which you can watch by clicking on the picture above) was taken from  Koji’s Cafe  and can be found on a web page that provides  a tutorial on how to use “Eye Talk” ....

Posted by mistersquid on January 27, 2006 12:00 AM